Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...decided to reduce the number of players to about twenty men, exclusive of the batteries. This reduction of candidates will go into effect Monday and will be beneficial in that it will enable the most promising men to profit by more individual coaching. The impossiblity of devising a rule, which will be sufficiently comprehensive to decide concerning the eligibility of all candidates for the athletic teams, is shown by the fact that the rules, adopted at the beginning of the year, fail to determine whether several of the candidates are eligible to play on the nine. The athletic committee...
...Heidelberg University there is a rule on record which was made in 1430, forbidding the practice by the older students of shaving the heads of new students and filling their ears with...
...directors of the club in a recent meeting made a very important amendment to the constitution to go into effect at once. According to this new rule the membership of those who get tickets this spring will be extended to the close of the rowing season next autumn. The term of membership before was during the college year, so that tickets issued in the spring were only good until Commencement. Hereafter the men who do not join till spring will get as much rowing for their five dollars as those who join in the autumn. The new rule will also...
...each will be required to render an account of the manner in which he has spent his money. When he returns he learns that some of the servants have invested their wealth at interest and have made new fortunes. To these the master gives great wealth and cities to rule over. One of the men, fearing lest he should lose what he already has, hides his money and gains nothing. To him the master gives only reproof for not having taken advantage of his opportunity...
...report of Dean Langdell of the Law School shows that the past year has been a successful one in spite of the falling off in the number of new men, which is more than accounted for by the new rule requiring every student not a graduate of a college to pass the admission examination as a condition of entering the school...